Central America 2012

Central America 2012: These images of daily life in Nicaragua and Honduras represent a simpler life. Central America is poor by USA standards. So poor that most families live on less than $2 US dollars a day. This area was torn apart by several wars during the late 1970’s and 80’s which can still be seen today.

A young girl stands in front of her home made out of a frame of a bus near Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.

A lady shows a photo of her which highlights her cancer in San Gregorio, Nicaragua.

An older man sits on the front porch in San Gregorio, Nicaragua.

Men work in the sugar cane fields near Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.With her dad reflected in the mirror of a motorcycle a young girl is standing at her home in Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.
Baseball is the second most popular sport behind soccer. A boy hits the ball in Muelle de los Bueyes, Nicaragua.
A grand mother in her home in Muelle de los Bueyes, Nicaragua.A milk case is used as a crib in Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.
A girl with her doll in Guaimaca, Honduras.A man who was robbed and injured by gunshot sits in his home in Guaimaca, Honduras.
Prisoner in a jail in Honduras.
Mother and daughter collect plastic bottles at a road side dump in Nicaragua.A man who was robbed and injured by gunshot sits in his home in Guaimaca, Honduras.

Cattle is a mainstay and children learn to take care of the livestock at an early age. A boy catches a cow in Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.
Children play outside their home in Villa De San Francisco, Honduras.Cattle is a mainstay and children learn to take care of the livestock at an early age. A boy sits on a corral near Muelle de los Bueyes, Nicaragua..